A video of a gang-rape in South Africa went viral across the world and gripped the country with questions about the culture that surrounds rape. According to Doctors without Borders, a woman is raped an average of every 26 seconds in South Africa.

This cartoon, by Jonathan Zapiro, sheds light on the manner in which the cell-phone video was circulated from phone to phone before ending up in the hands of the media, which then passed it on to police.

On Thursday, an eight-year-old dragged herself home after being raped, bitten and gouged. On the same day a protest took place in the city of Grahamstown over an alleged rape of two schoolchildren by a teacher. This photo, taken by Kirsty Makin shows the scene outside the school.

A particular issue of rape in South Africa is that of "corrective" rape, in which men rape women known or believed to be lesbians in order to "cure" them of their homosexuality. Female football players in South Africa have been a target of this form of rape.

Many credit the nation's violent past, especially during the apartheid era, with being the cause of the country's rape epidemic. With only one in nine women estimated to report her rape to police, an attitude of impunity exists for rapists, as Zimbabwean cartoonist Tony Namate illustrates.